Greek Tragedies III: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

University of Chicago Press, Apr 22, 2013 - Drama - 352 pages

This anthology collects some of the most important plays by Ancient Greek tragedians, in updated translations with new introductions.

Greek Tragedies, Volume III presents some of the finest and most fundamental works of Western dramatic literature. It draws together plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago’s acclaimed nine-volume series, Complete Greek Tragedies. This third edition updates the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which they are famous. New introductions for each play provide essential information about the production histories and the stories themselves.

This volume contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides’s “Alecestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

Contents

• Philoctetes Translated by David Grene: 45
• Oedipus at Colonus Translated by Robert Fitzgerald: 113
• The Bacchae Translated by William Arrowsmith: 197
• Alcestis Translated by Richmond Lattimore: 267
• Textual Notes: 321

About the author

Mark Griffith is a professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Albany, CA.  Trained at Cambridge, Griffith is an enormously accomplished expert on the Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale and is currently professor of ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and a visiting member of the Committe on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  He divides his time between Pisa, Florence, and Chicago. Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Greek Tragedies III: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis; The Complete Greek Tragedies
• Authors: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
• Editors: David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013
• ISBN: 022603609X, 9780226036090
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Drama / Ancient & Classical; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical